What to Expect When You're Expected to Teach Gifted Students: A Guide to the Celebrations, Surprises, Quirks, and Questions in Your First Year Teaching Gifted Learners

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What to Expect When You're Expected to Teach Gifted Students is a practical, easy-to-read guide to what teachers may experience during their first year teaching gifted students. From the joys and surprises to the frustrations and questions, this book addresses specific topics related to gifted education, including students' social-emotional needs,

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Exceptionally well organized and presented, "What to Expect When You're Expected to Teach Gifted Students" by Kari Lockhart is especially recommended to the attention of classroom teachers who are new or inexperienced with respect to the education of gifted students K-12--and should be a core acquisition for school district, college, and university library Teacher Education & In-Service Training instructional reference collections.

,Midwest Book Review, 4/13/20
What to Expect When You're Expected to Teach Gifted Students proposes that gifted students should be the motivators for the design of the gifted program, rather than teachers simply defaulting to a standardized curriculum. Lockhart's insights and wide-ranging advice can give new teachers (and teachers who have limited experience with gifted students) the support we might need to take over a gifted program or better team with the gifted teachers in our school.,Kolby Wagner,MiddleWeb, 5/28/20
What to Expect When You're Expected to Teach Gifted Students is a must-read for any teacher who is stepping into the role of teaching gifted learners. Lockhart does not shy away from the fact that building a well-rounded program that meets the needs of all gifted learners can be a daunting task, but she encourages her read- ers to eat the elephant one bite at a time and provides plenty of support in doing so.,Sarah A. Chambers,Gifted Education Review, 9/30/20

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Kari Lockhart has worked in education for 10 years and has spent a significant portion of that time in the gifted field. She is currently a doctoral student studying educational psychology with a focus on gifted and talented populations at the University of North Texas.